Men often take their imagination for their heart and they believe they are converted as soon as they think of being converted.
Blaise Pascal Quotes
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All men's miseries derive from not being able to sit in a quiet room alone.
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The struggle alone pleases us, not the victory.
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It is the fight alone that pleases us, not the victory.
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Chance gives rise to thoughts, and chance removes them no art can keep or acquire them.
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Imagination disposes of everything it creates beauty, justice, and happiness, which are everything in this world.
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Nothing is so intolerable to man as being fully at rest, without a passion, without business, without entertainment, without care.
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Time heals griefs and quarrels, for we change and are no longer the same persons. Neither the offender nor the offended are any more themselves.
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As men are not able to fight against death, misery, ignorance, they have taken it into their heads, in order to be happy, not to think of them at all.
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Our nature consists in motion complete rest is death.
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The charm of fame is so great that we like every object to which it is attached, even death.